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the real title of "map of l.a" is obviously "olkahoma nikki lane coney island pacific ocean bob dylan xbox 360 nancy sinatra palm trees piano ballad baby"

Some users when Lana uses a piano

lana do something before the twinks kill each other challenge!!!!!!

When Lana actually posts everything today and this thread has been a pre-pre-release thread for only a day after weeks of discussions

ldr stans after breaking into her producer’s studio

guitar electric manifesting

I don't blame her after the shitshows that happened since may 2020...lots of people's true colors exposed and self proclaimed Stans directly attacking her. it must have been heartbreaking for her and made it harder to trust anyone. but even since then she's still had some pretty wholesome interactions with her fans.

Lana when nobody shows up anymore to paint her banisters because they’re all tired of her shit

The way AKA, BTD, UV, HM, LFL, NFR, COCC and BB are all so different because they are DIFFERENT eras (and different moments in Lana's life) but also they share SOME similarities because is the SAME person behind them

Yesterday, Lana Del Rey stopped by an Icing store inside Woodland Hills Mall in Tulsa, Oklahoma. While she was there, she snapped a photo with an employee who was a fan.

friendly reminder... video games is a piano ballad, video games made her FAMOUS and it's still regarded as one of the best songs she's released, other fantastic songs like old money, cherry blossom, yayo, etc. are piano ballads, she's always worked with a piano ballad sound, if you don't like her anymore or if you just simply think she's just a boring middle-aged lady because she's not making the same style of music she was making over a decade ago just say that

Sorry if you feel attacked. But to me your posts weren‘t expressing constructive criticism. Saying things like she is destroying her own career, she should stop singing about Nikki and stop releasing piano ballads… that bashing is just pointless. And tiring. We had multiple discussions here with people who dont like her recent music, and that‘s ok and discussions are the whole point of a fan forum, but your posts… well

Just a daily reminder of what's to come

i've been saying that!! white dress is a hell of a highlight in her carrer

Produced by Jack Antonoff and reusing some parts of HTD

She has to make a jazz album, she HAS to! I don’t expect BB to be jazzy, but it’s definitely something she could be leaning on in the future. And it would be an amazing surprised if BB turned out to have jazzy tracks! Imagine all the jazzy breakup songs she could write now that her and Chase are over… Jazz would compliment this album so well, especially with tracks such as Text Book or the title track

I never thought that Wildflower WILDFIRE would be the « anthem » of the summer, at least in the news Our world is literally burning up in flames everywhere…

This thread is evolving but like backwards lol

someone even posted that she should stop „wishing happy birthday to white people“ Anyway we should all give peace a chance and let the fear we have fall away

For my own sanity I hope she didn’t and it’s coming like real real soonish

jingle bells only this time because piano is out of question

You troll like thunder...

If you think about it, 'White Dress' is, probably, her most experimental song ever (among officially released ones). And it's very risky to start a whole album like that because these vocals are a big turn-off for many people (let's not forget how teens dragged WD on TikTok). She still has that fire, she's exploring new things and not afraid to do so, and I'm very positive about an upcoming album. Sorry, but "My body is a map of LA" is already ICONIC.

The three singles are all excellent so I'm willing to trust her on this era, even if it resembles NFR/Chemtrails but I want some sort of hint at progression. I don't mind NFR/COCC incorporation but if it doesn't show any sort of evolution towards the end of the album, I'll be a little annoyed, even if the songs are amazing. But as I said, the three songs have me pretty hopeful (especially the ending of WW). Either way, I don't really understand the discourse, especially those arguing for her to remain in the NFR/COCC vein. Like, nobody's gonna hate her if she decides to not change it up much (well, we might pretend to for dramatic effect) but surely those of you who are defending the idea must want something different? Like, it's okay to not be okay with the direction of Lana's music.

Actually Norman, Chemtrails and BB sound totally different even though they all have a piano.

Lana literally evolved the most between BTD and PAradise and Ultraviolence and even Honeymoon, all those albums sound wildly different from one another, I’m not saying I want her to make another record with “that same old sound” I want her to reignite the fire she used have under her ass that got her to create entirely new soundscapes every era for those first few years Using less and less instrumentation with a less larger sound and basing everything around a piano is not “evolving”, it’s being stagnant

i can't believe we're having a conversation abt piano making literally any song a piano ballad

some of y’all just need to admit to yourselves that it’s time to stan someone else because obviously lana isn’t doin it for yall anymore and that is no ones problem but your own

piano ≠ ballad

I was bored so I made an artwork for good ones that's it

another day of manifesting electric guitars

I seriously don't get the NFR/Chemtrails/BB comparison. Yes, all 3 have piano but so did every other Lana album. Visuals are also way different. NFR was all about beaches and the sea (album photoshoot, the MAC visuals we got in September, the double MV, Doin' Time to some degree too). Chemtrails was a mixture of country club owning rich woman, the midwest and whatever that weird (but great) blue/green Neil pics were. We don't have much from BB other than the album cover so we'll see. All I see from NFR to BB is the natural evolution Lana's music had since the last folky tracks from LFL but still every album has a different vibe to it. Yes, the genre hopping she did from BTD to UV to HM was great and very interesting but it's also nice to see a more slow progression in her sound. Also c'mon NFR came in 2019 and we'll have 2 2021 albums. It's not like she's been doing the same sound (that's not even the same) for 10 years straight.

Not that long ago she wrote, produced and then unfortunately cut ‘Serene Queen,’ which certainly had a groovy, high tech/techo, studio-manipulated sound. She might return to a broadly similar sound at any time, at least for a few cuts. I admit that, though I loved almost all of COCC, after most of NFR! and the three recent singles, I’m personally pretty tired of the slower, piano-ballady tracks.

Have you guys not heard that BB is being scrapped for a country Christmas album? The title is "Ho Ho Yee Haw"

Us entering into the Blue Banisters (Pre-)Pre-Pre-Release Thread and finding a war regarding Lana piano songs. Lana lemme help you paint your banisters blue so you can release the album and this thing stops

i h8 that lana is solidifying her position as creator of some of the most beautiful complex introspective and poetic lyrics ever written but we aren't focusing on it LA Woman

california? mellow?

Tell me you never listened to her discography without telling me you never listened to her discography. BTD: Video Games Paradise: Yayo UV: Old Money LFL: BPBP, Change and these are the more „pure piano“ ballads excluding demos and unreleased stuff. Honeymoon had some ballads too, but the instrumental arrangements are impeccable so people like to ignore that album in this matter. LFL as summery as it is has a lot of ballads. Also I wouldn’t exactly call her vocals anywhere high pitched lmao?? Except for NAWWAL she doesn’t use her high register as much. Less so on the three singles

LANA HELP we are talking about how all songs in existence are piano ballads and even worse, talking about sales

I don't hear any similarities between the three released songs and COCC, even though they're both using the piano. Completely different moods for me.

Omg Paradise is a "Piano Ballad Album" Dan Heath – piano (track 8) Rick Nowels – piano (track 4) Zac Rae – piano (track 1) Patrick Warren – piano (tracks 2, 3, 4) Honeymoon as well!! Rick Nowels – piano (tracks 1–3, 10, 12) Let's not forget Lust for Life!! Rick Nowels – piano (tracks 3, 5, 8, 10, 12, 15) Kieron Menzies – piano (track 8) Zac Rae – piano (track 10) Patrick Warren – piano (tracks 13) Jahaan Sweet – piano (track 6)

wow shocker piano is one of the most popular instruments ever that’s crazy that it gets used so often

Um no... Piano on a track doesn't mean its a Piano Ballad. NFR 1 - Not a Piano Ballad 2 - Not a Piano Ballad 3 - Not a Piano Ballad 4 - Not a Piano Ballad 5 - Not a Piano Ballad 6 - Not a Piano Ballad 7 - Not a Piano Ballad 8 - Not a Piano Ballad 9 - Not a Piano Ballad 10 - Not a Piano Ballad 11 - Not a Piano Ballad 12 - Piano Ballad 13 - Kinda Piano Ballad 14 - Piano Ballad COCC 1 - Not a Piano Ballad 2 - Not a Piano Ballad 3 - Not a Piano Ballad 4 - Piano Ballad (though it had other instrumentation) 5 - Not a Piano Ballad 6 - Not a Piano Ballad 7 - Not a Piano Ballad 8 - Not a Piano Ballad 9 - Not a Piano Ballad 10 - Not a Piano Ballad 11 - Piano Ballad (though it had other instrumentation) Uh no...

And NFR! is her most successful album since Ultraviolence. The point is pretty much here. The problem with COCC is that it wasn't promoted at all and her team relied only on physical sales.

This times x1000

Hi all, Just popping in to say I've officially knocked this thread back to a Pre-Pre-Release Thread, which means when we have more concrete information such as a certain release date, I will lock this thread and create a new Pre-Release Thread. This is what we typically do for releases as you all may recall, but because she announced this album so quickly with seemingly a title and date, we went straight to Pre-Release. Since it appears there's still going to be some time until more concrete information comes out, this will now serve as the Pre-Pre-Release Thread for the upcoming album's discussion. Thanks guys! Enjoy the rest of your Tuesday. Neptune's in retrograde, so look out x

some of the songs on this album will have piano in the credits and that's illegal

*Lana using mainly the piano in her productions* fans:

That is the general sonic direction everyone seems to be taking now. Post covid era. Billie. Lorde. St Vincent. Lana. Taylor. I wont be surprised if Katy comes up with something similar too. Also let's not forget. Lana was leaning into folk in some parts of LFL which she explored further in NFR . And leaned into a country-folk-indie production on COCC. I don't understand how u can say TG,CG,TFJ,DT,FIILY,California are mellow . She is changing her style of writing and singing to make it more autobiographical than ever

the only thing I have to say is keep manifesting electric guitar